Category: Non-Fiction

• Memoir: Ghost in the Bone by Penny Bunton – A remarkable tour de force

  Actresses & Actors, Authors, Books, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Penny Bunton, Women Writers

• Biography: Simone de Beauvoir by Ursula Tidd

  Biography, Books, Feminism, Non-Fiction, Women Writers, Women’s Rights

• Tony Rudt: A brilliant mind in a great collection of essays

  Biography, Journalism, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt, Tony Judt, Women’s Rights

• ‘The Leopard’ Lampedusa’s light-hearted, deeply learned, always entertaining letters

  Authors, Books, Memoirs, Non-Fiction

• Charles Dickens: The making of a literary giant – Hibbert’s masterful biography

  Authors, Biography, Books, Charles Dickens, Christopher Hibbert, Non-Fiction

• Moments of Truth: Twelve 20th-Century Women Writers. A great book by Lorna Sage

  Authors, Biography, Books, Feminism, Journalism, Lorna Sage, Non-Fiction, Women Writers

• The best review/criticism of Hakim and her anti-feminist Honey Money/Erotic Capital nonsense

  Anti-Feminism, Catherine Hakim, Erotic Capital by Catherine Hakim, Non-Fiction, Sexism

• On ‘Ho*ney Money: The Power of Er*otic Capital’ by Catherine Hakim, plus Cristina Odone’s celebratory book review of it. Or: Golly Jee, Mr – Fancy a Flirtatious Smile & a Metaphorical BJ with That?

  Abuse of Women, Anti-Feminism, Catherine Hakim, Feminism, Misogyny, Non-Fiction, Sexism, Women’s Rights

• Harold Nicolson’s The Age of Reason: The best book on 18th century society?

  18th Century, Age of Enlightenment, History, Non-Fiction

• Bathing in Divine Waters: On the Many Pleasures of Role Models by John Waters

  Fiction, Ivy Compton-Burnett, John Waters, Journalism, Non-Fiction, Role Models by John Waters